Verbum Search through Tip of the Day #45

MJ. Smith

Tip 45: Library Results: Resource toolbar: Panel menu: Linked set

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Verbum training: Link Sets

The most familiar method of linking resources together so that the scroll together is a link set. Here, multiple tabs in the same or different panes synchronize on a common index. No resource (tab) is designated as host so that changing the reference location in one resource will change it in all. When clicking on links or when resources are using wildly different sizes of texts, the behavior may be a bit exasperating. Solutions for that exasperation are given below.

Verbum Help

[quote]•          Link set — Resources that are indexed by the same data type can be linked together and set to navigate to the same reference at the same time.^[1]

Link set is the method used in Verbum predefined layouts.

Step 1. Open the Layouts Menu (1).

Step 2. Select Bible and Commentary (2) in Quickstart Layouts.

Step 3: Note that both the tab for your highest priority Bible and the tab for your highest priority Bible commentary have an orange box with the letter A to the right of the resource name. This indicates that they are both in the Link Set A. Play with the layout watching how scrolling or entering references in one resource panel affects the other.

To create your own link set:

• open the Panel Menu (kebab) (1)
• select a link set (2) not already in use for the layout
• repeat for additional members of the link set using the same set (letter) as you did for the first member of the set
• note the option to set the link set to “None” – this clears any links in this resource
• there is also an option, the next item in the Panel Menu, “Clear all links” will clear all links in the current layout.

A second, more complex, use of link sets is found at Layouts à Home Page Layouts à Lectionary (1).

In this layout, the follow resources make up Link Set A:

• top 5 priority Bibles each in their own tab in a shared pane
• top priority commentary
• Explorer tool

Again, play with the layout until you are comfortable that you understand the behavior of links on a Bible reference index with no resource serving as host.

Navigation of tabs

To navigate between multiple tabs in a single pane:

• Ctrl+Page Down – Switch to next tab
• Ctrl+Tab – Go to next tab
• Ctrl+Shift+Tab – Go to previous tab
• Ctrl+Page Up – Switch to previous tab

To navigate between parallel resources:

• Ctrl+right arrow – Navigate to next parallel resource (use this if current resource has a horizontal scrollbar)
• Right arrow – Navigate to next parallel resource
• Ctrl+left arrow – Navigate to previous parallel resource (use this if current resource has a horizontal scrollbar)
• Left arrow – Navigate to previous parallel resource

To navigate between equivalent resources:

• Ctrl+Shift+right arrow – Next equivalent resource
• Ctrl+Shift+left arrow – Previous equivalent resource

To navigate between panels:

• Ctrl+Tab – Go to next tab
• Ctrl+Shift+F6 – Switch keyboard focus to previous panel^[2]

Navigating history

When following links or differences in text unit size has set a resource to reference other than where you want it, use the panel, you can use the panel history to return to your previous position.

Method 1:

• Click on the arrow head (1) to open the history menu
• Select the desired location
• The resource will refocus to that reference.

Method 2:

• Use the prior-next (2) brackets to navigate through the history to the desired reference. This is used most commonly when you know it is only a click or two away.

Send hyperlinks here

The best solution to clicking on Bible reference hyperlinks not interfering with your primary Bible in the study layout is to open a second copy of the Bible solely to receive hyperlinks.

Step 1. Open Panel Menu (1)

Step 2. Set “Send hyperlinks here” on (2)

Now all hyperlinks with Bible reference links will come to the second copy of the Bible, leave the primary Bible panel unchanged. Note that this works for any resources and that there is an analogous function for Searches.

 

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^[1] Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).

^[2] Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).